Large Scale Composting

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Grrrr, Do you really have a hardbacked copy of Howard's book lying on your desk, or just the same as me - an electronic copy from Steve Solomons? If you do have an original, please advise the condition, and how much do you want for it? Old McDonald.
 
   / Large Scale Composting #12  
OldMcDonald said:
Grrrr, Do you really have a hardbacked copy of Howard's book lying on your desk, or just the same as me - an electronic copy from Steve Solomons? If you do have an original, please advise the condition, and how much do you want for it? Old McDonald.

Yep, I do :D But I had no idea it is rare and worth anything. My grandad has a lot of old farming books that he used or was given to him from his dad. It is old but in good condition. I don't think I will be selling it though :) The old books are very interesting to read.

My grandad also has Fream's Elements of Agriculture going back donkeys years. It is interesting to see how things changed over the years.

Also, most of the tractor stuff is relevant to our ancient tractors :)
 
   / Large Scale Composting #13  
Our local municipal sewer plant composts the solid matter left over at the end of the anerobic process. They mix it with wood chips and aireate it with pipes with holes for distribution. I got a tour when they were building the plant but I cannot remember how they turned the piles. They were under cover in a big building. Maybe the aireation eliminates the need for turning. I know they cannot use the final material for crops. The local gravel plants like it for reclaimation.
 
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6sunset6 said:
Our local municipal sewer plant composts the solid matter left over at the end of the anerobic process. They mix it with wood chips and aireate it with pipes with holes for distribution. I got a tour when they were building the plant but I cannot remember how they turned the piles. They were under cover in a big building. Maybe the aireation eliminates the need for turning. I know they cannot use the final material for crops. The local gravel plants like it for reclaimation.

That sounds smelly to me

Lots of poo in a building :eek:
 
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Actually the piles don't smell . The tanks did till they covered them HMM maybe it was not an anerobic process . But it's like the MooDO stuff in the bags .That does not smell.
 
   / Large Scale Composting #16  
we get some composted human manure at times. It is turned and chopped and screened to 1/2 " minus. It is wonderful compost and will make a flower bed grow like crazy as well as grass. AS far as crops go it is up to the individual state to monitor the tests. It is much safer than organic types lead you to bleieve, and does not smell a bit.
 
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Been off on another project (restoration of a 1906 barn...will shoot pics tmrw),

I've had just enough time to learn a bit about in vessel composting. Looks very (very) interesting and seems to be a great way to avoid some permitting issues.
 
   / Large Scale Composting #18  
I once had a job that had me walking around on the top of waste water treatment plant compost piles taking gas samples. These piles were out in the open. Didn't smell much unless you broke through the crust and went up to your waist in the stuff. After the first time that happened I wore chest waders. Still was much better than the work we did at landfills.

The amazing thing was the plants growing on the piles. Especially tomatoes. Those seeds went through someone's digestive system, down the sewer, through the treatment plant and still germinated in the compost pile.
 

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